What is your creative process/steps ?

16 years ago

I am new to the digital world, but I have always loved photography.

I feel very "uncoordinated" in the steps AFTER I take a photo. We just came back from Hawaii and I am trying to get organized on the steps I need to take. I feel like there must be an easier way then what I am thinking - I haven't attempted it yet, and maybe I am making it harder than it has to be. (?)

I have the photos in a file in "my photos". Out of the 150 or so, I need to go through and delete any of the ones that I know I don't want to keep.

Then I need to decide which ones I will print. I use Costco - not a home printer. I will be enlarging some to frame.

Would I put them all in a file in Photoshop and go throught them and edit them, then when it comes to Costco do I take them from the photoshop file? I hope you know what I mean when I say I just don't know in what order I should do things, so that I am not duplicating steps. I feel like this is taking me soooo long to do.

Do I only use Photoshop on the ones that I am editing? Then I would have 2 files and that seems awkward and difficult to keep straight.

So I am interested in how you organize yourself.

Thanks!

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ntt_hou
16 years ago
I normally just use MS Office Picture Manager that comes with MS Office 2003 package. I like this tool because it's simple and easy for editing. It also allows you to crop, compress, resize and rename files in batches.

Then, I would burn the selected photos on a CD and just bring it to a local 1-hour photo for prints.

Be awared that some of their machines don't like file names that are not continous or have some of these: *, &, %, #, etc.. In other words, if you rename the jpg files, use only alphabets and numbers and run them together without any spacing.
bean_counter_z4
16 years ago
This is what I do because 1. saves space on computer hard drive 2. never lets the original photo be damaged.

I take the memory card to Woodmans and get a CD (only a CD not prints) made. Cost $2.00. Bring the Cd home and run the photos I like thru Photoshop. Put the photos I want prints made of into a flash drive and take to be printed or sometimes just upload to Snapfish. Then I file the CD somewhere with all the photos. Only the ones I put into Photoshop are on my hard drive.
Marnie
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alisande
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Because I'm teaching a beginning digital photography class this week (one time only, for seniors), I asked about people's storing/editing procedures on another forum. I was surprised at the wide range of preferences.

Like Bean Counter, I put my photos on a CD commercially (Walmart). But first I use a card reader to upload them to Photoshop, where I resize selected images and save them to a CD for emailing or uploading to my Flickr or Photobucket pages.

If you save selected images to bring to Costco for printing, do not resize them. Save them onto a CD in their original size.

Good luck! You'll figure out what works best for you eventually. :-)

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stargazzer
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